Scenes from World War I, 100 years on

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Photographer Peter Macdiarmid revisits the battlefields and memorials of the Great War, which began in 1914.

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The Zivy Crater cemetery contains the graves of 53 First World War soldiers all of whom died in 1917 on the Vimy battlefield in Thelus, France. The cemetery is in the crater made from a mine explosion. A number of events will be held this year to commemorate the centenary of the start of World War One.

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The Zivy Crater cemetery contains the graves of 53 First World War soldiers all of whom died in 1917 on the Vimy battlefield in Thelus, France. The cemetery is in the crater made from a mine explosion. A number of events will be held this year to commemorate the centenary of the start of World War One.